iPhone Used to Browse MacRumors.com?
It looks like someone at Apple has started more openly testing the Apple iPhone across web sites, including MacRumors.com.
One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identification strings in the Apache logs of their eBay images. According to their submitted logs, the browser identifies itself as:
While browser identification strings can be easily spoofed, these requests originated from Apple's internal IP addresses.
After this tip, we were able to confirm similar findings in our own logs, verifying the above claims.
One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identification strings in the Apache logs of their eBay images. According to their submitted logs, the browser identifies itself as:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3
While browser identification strings can be easily spoofed, these requests originated from Apple's internal IP addresses.
After this tip, we were able to confirm similar findings in our own logs, verifying the above claims.
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62 months ago
omfg. that rocks.
seconded. thats just freaking awesome.
Cool I hope they find and post in this thread :)
too bad they can't because of their NDAs. :p
62 months ago
Haha. Awesome. But seriously, who routinely goes through their logs for an ebay site? lol. But hey, nice find!
62 months ago
If this proves that folks at Apple look at MacRumors, then they clearly must have some idea of what users really want. Hopefully, they read the thread that was a nearly unanimous negative on the demise of the Mini, because it can't go away.
62 months ago
The perfect feel good news to hear after watching the perfect feel good film (Ferris Bueller :D )
62 months ago
Arn,
So which rumors/forums did the good people at Apple look at whilst they were here at MacRumors?
So which rumors/forums did the good people at Apple look at whilst they were here at MacRumors?
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